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You learn something every day. 😎 I had never thought about this before, but it is absolutely true. almost always – when I’ve started out on a goal, I have not been particularly eager to get started.

https://www.deanbokhari.com/acton-leads-motivation/


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First step: spelling "action" correctly in the URL.

(Not bloke's fault)
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bort2.0 wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:10 am
First step: spelling "action" correctly in the URL.

(Not bloke's fault)
Isn’t an acton some obscure subatomic particle? Or wave?
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No.
It is a very small settlement in Tennessee - immediately north of Corinth, Mississippi - along Shiloh Road - Buford Pusser‘s old stomping grounds.

I wasn’t motivated to discover that. I already knew it, but the more I found out about it, the more motivated I became to find out more.


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i think there's an ACTON somewhere around here... i vaguely remember seeing the sign along the road.
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Nworbekim wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:28 am i think there's an ACTON somewhere around here... i vaguely remember seeing the sign along the road.
Perhaps you should get in on it…(??)
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The only Acton I know is when people are acton stupid. And that's all the time.
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Doc wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:35 am The only Acton I know is when people are acton stupid. And that's all the time.
That’s when having a lah occifer around is so important.
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bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:36 am
Doc wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:35 am The only Acton I know is when people are acton stupid. And that's all the time.
That’s when having a lah occifer around is so important.
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bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:36 am
Doc wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:35 am The only Acton I know is when people are acton stupid. And that's all the time.
That’s when having a lah occifer around is so important.
Yer pert'n near right!
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Doc wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:39 am
bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:36 am
Doc wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:35 am The only Acton I know is when people are acton stupid. And that's all the time.
That’s when having a lah occifer around is so important.
Yer pert'n near right!


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bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:49 am
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I don’t even want to know what that is. :facepalm2:
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York-aholic wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:26 am
bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:49 am
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I don’t even want to know what that is. :facepalm2:
:laugh:

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:clap: :laugh:
bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:30 am
Nworbekim wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:28 am i think there's an ACTON somewhere around here... i vaguely remember seeing the sign along the road.
Perhaps you should get in on it…(??)
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I think Actons are the ETs who are currently taking over the human race in order to enslave it.
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Mary Ann wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:57 am I think Actons are the ETs who are currently taking over the human race in order to enslave it.
...and about 46% of the people - astonishingly - vote for them, though they claim that 52% do.
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York-aholic wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:26 am
bloke wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:49 am
rectum sew
I don’t even want to know what that is. :facepalm2:
In order to understand it, you must dwell somewhere southeast of the corner of the Oklahoma panhandle.
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noting the monitors' reactions...

As long as the original posting of a thread is not nonsensical, it's obviously ok for all subsequent posts in that thread to be nonsensical. :smilie8: :thumbsup:
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The premise is a Lie.

It is obviously better to look before one leaps.

To navel gaze endlessly to inaction.

To analyze one’s self to inaction.

As haste makes waste.

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